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No, it doesn't. I know a lot of people that work day-in-day-out on ebola at the CDC. The US (and many countries) are totally equipped to handle ebola and you really don't need special facilities to do it.


So how come we can't stop the seasonal stomach flu ;) it's not as easy as they make it out to be and I for one don't want to test this hypothesis...


We can't stop the seasonal stomach flu because the stakes are low enough that we aren't handing out hand-sanitizer on every street corner and obsessively quarantining every gastroenteritis sufferer and every person with whom they ever interacted.


flu is airborne. ebola isn't, and no one that i know of at the cdc is seriously considering the possibility that it will become airborne.


Stomach flu isn't flu. Stomach flu is a misnomer, referring to gastroenteritis, a symptom of a stomach bug - generally a virus, but not influenza (the flu). It's relevant because the infectious mechanism of stomach bugs is similar to Ebola - the disease spreads by people interacting with sufferers' copious vomit and diarrhea.




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